Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
Co-Director, Pacific Information and Communication Technology for Development Collaborative (PICTDC)
School of Communications, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Research

My research examines how increased instrumentation and tracking of natural and social processes (e.g., the Internet of Things) enable the construction of unique data profiles that may expose personal information that could be used by corporations or governments to disadvantage certain individuals or groups. I study how these developments may create unjust power differentials used by one group to diminish the opportunities of another, threaten to destroy anonymity when engaging in public affairs, and hinder public participation in democratic discourse. I am also interested in open data, in particular how it can be harnessed for the public good, while minimizing the risks of re-identification of personal data.

Rathnayake, C., & Winter, J.S. (2017). Linking social media use to political attributes: A discriminant analysis of social media uses and gratifications based on political tolerance and dogmatism. Policy & Internet.

Rathnayake, C., & Winter, J.S. (2016). Linking social media use to political attributes: A discriminant analysis of social media uses and gratifications based on political tolerance and dogmatism. Internet, Politics, and Policy (IPP): The Platform Society. Oxford Internet Institute. September, 2016, University of Oxford.

Kauweloa, N.S., & Winter, J.S. (2016). Collegiate e-sports as work or play. 1st joint conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG). July-August, 2016, Dundee, Scotland.

Winter, J.S. (2016). "Communication Law and Policy scholarship's role in addressing information/power asymmetries: The case of big data analytics and social welfare." Paper accepted for presentation at the International Communication Association Annual Conference. June, 2016, Fukuoka, Japan.

Winter, J.S. (2014). The right to communicate as a foundation for the good life. International Communication Association Annual Conference. May, 2014, Seattle.

Harris, C.S., & Winter, J.S. (2013). Opening the flow of citizen engagement: An exploratory study of social networking services as a potential vehicle for e-participation in the City and County of Honolulu. International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 9(2), 63-84. doi: 10.4018/jegr.2013040104. (PDF available).